Images

Russ Buesing uses a cable car to access streamgage 05104500 in late winter (March 26, 2009) on the Roseau River below South Fork near Malung, MN.

Longtail boats are an important part of the Thai seafaring economy. A nationwide ban on logging has caused the value of the boats to skyrocket.

Lower Yellowstone Falls, Yellowstone River.

Winter storm erosion of coastal bluffs at Ocean Beach, San Francisco.

A chipmunk resting in the natural camoflage.

Waterfall at Hayden Run.

Kids in Grant Park enjoy a fountain.

The Colorado River near Moab, Utah. The entire Colorado River Basin currently supports 50 million people, and that amount is expected to increase by 23 million between 2000 and 2030. A new USGS study shows more than half of the streamflow in the Upper Colorado River Basin originates as groundwater. Photo by M. Miller.

USGS employee sampling a groundwater well. Photo from USGS circular 1358 "Water Quality in Basin-Fill Aquifers of the Southwestern United States: Arizona, Californian, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah, 1993-2009.

The Herrenbergberg Cave in Germany was discovered during the process of digging a new high speed train tunnel. Before its discovery, it was isolated from the surface.

USGS employee sampling a groundwater well. Photo from USGS circular 1358 "Water Quality in Basin-Fill Aquifers of the Southwestern United States: Arizona, Californian, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah, 1993-2009.

USGS employee sampling an urban  groundwater well. Photo from USGS circular 1352 "Water quality in the Glacial Aquifer System, Northern United States, 1993 - 2009.

USGS scientist sampling recharged groundwater beneath an agricultural field. Photo from USGS circular 1352 "Water quality in the Glacial Aquifer System, Northern United States, 1993-2009".

Choctawhatchee River and gage in late December flood looking downstream. 

Wright's Creek gage and flood. 

USGS employees release radio-tagged salmon smolts into the Columbia River below the sluiceway outfall at The Dalles Dam.

USGS Gage house reflected in Cedar Creek near Haynes, North Dakota.

Sampling terrace deposits above the Cheyenne River in South Dakota. Terrace deposits are serving as background readings for a sediment contamination study (Huron/Rapid City, SD, Water Science Centers). Kevin Baker is collecting samples in the trench. John Stamm is taking notes.

USGS employees conduct water quality sampling with DH-81: USGS gage 02335870 Sope Creek near Marietta, GA.

Ryan Beaulin and Greg Goodwin (USGS Central Midwest Water Science Center) conduct water-quality sampling on the Illinois River, downstream of Marseilles, Illinois.

ADCP work for a Waste Water Treatment Plant Study.  Photo taken south of St. Paul, MN on the Mississippi River (Mounds View, MN, Water Science Center).